Osprey without a fish

Harryb

Hi you'll,

He had a possum


He landed on the tree for awhile


didn't like the noise from the D2H


so he took his possum and went home

morrisphotography2003

all I can say is you got a way with birds. you ever think of putting together a book for all the bird lovers out there. Keep 'em coming Harry.

Harryb wrote:

Hi you'll,

He had a possum


He landed on the tree for awhile


didn't like the noise from the D2H


so he took his possum and went home

gtc

excellent
harry

excellent series -what lens are you using?how far away were you from the subject?

greg

ehughes

Harry, excellent work, I really like the first one. Was the osprey really big or was it a fairly small possum?

And I agree, you should do a "Birds of Florida" book

Ed

ginger_55

Those birds are beautiful, Harry. You did a great job...........or it is just the new camera. I shoulda switched to Nikon, my birds would fly closer.

That is half a possum. I am beginning to think these beautiful birds do not have a heart of gold. It was one thing when the Ospreys I saw (at a great distance) were just carrying small fish, but this is getting to be a bit much. We cook our meat, at least.:D

Wonderful series.

ginger

Harryb

morrisphotography2003 wrote:

all I can say is you got a way with birds. you ever think of putting together a book for all the bird lovers out there. Keep 'em coming Harry.

Thank you Robert. That book has been done a number of times and sadly by photographers way more talented than myself. :cry

Harryb

gtc wrote:

harry

excellent series -what lens are you using?how far away were you from the subject?

greg

HI Greg,

I was using my 300mm/F4.0 lens and the Nikon 1.4 TC. He was about 10 yards away and 25 feet up when I took these pics.

Harryb

ehughes wrote:

Harry, excellent work, I really like the first one. Was the osprey really big or was it a fairly small possum?

And I agree, you should do a "Birds of Florida" book

Ed

Hey Ed,

It was a fairly small possum from what I could see, also part fo the possum had been consumed already. Thanks for the kind words I do appreciate them.

pathfinder

ginger_55 wrote:

Those birds are beautiful, Harry. I am beginning to think these beautiful birds do not have a heart of gold.

It was one thing when the Ospreys I saw (at a great distance) were just carrying small fish, but this is getting to be a bit much. We cook our meat, at least.:D

Wonderful series.

ginger

Raptors don't have hearts of gold, Ginger, they are true apex carnivores!

Great shots Harry!! I'm beginning to think the Florida birds are used to snow bird tourists and their cameras. I am not able to get anywhere near 10 yards to large birds locally.

ginger_55

Harry, you are getting the same reach I am. Since my birds want to hang out in the middle of a marsh, maybe I should get a 2Xs extender.

g

bfjr

Pristine Harry

If ya got a minute can you tell me what I'm doing wrong (besides prententing to a photographer ), but why won't they look at me:



:lol4

Kirwin

Wonderful series, Harry. Nice to see an Osprey that's perched on a tree instead of a man made "dish network" perch. Thanks for sharing.

morrisphotography2003 wrote:

all I can say is you got a way with birds. you ever think of putting together a book for all the bird lovers out there. Keep 'em coming Harry.

Harryb

ginger_55 wrote:

Those birds are beautiful, Harry. You did a great job...........or it is just the new camera. I shoulda switched to Nikon, my birds would fly closer.

That is half a possum. I am beginning to think these beautiful birds do not have a heart of gold. It was one thing when the Ospreys I saw (at a great distance) were just carrying small fish, but this is getting to be a bit much. We cook our meat, at least.:D

Wonderful series.

ginger

Hey Ginger,

Thanks for the kind words. Everybody should switch to Nikon if they want to shoot birds. Its a well known fact that birds are afraid of white lenses.

Birds ain't particularly nice. They spend their days looking for food and anything smaller than them is lunch. They have evolved from dinsoaurs.

Harryb

bfjr wrote:

Pristine Harry

If ya got a minute can you tell me what I'm doing wrong (besides prententing to a photographer ), but why won't they look at me:

:lol4

Hey Ben,

Ah, the classic duck butt shot. Most shots of duck are of their butts. I have hundreds of duck butt pictures. Its a very unappreciated niche in wildlife photography.

System

excellent set, harry - your bird shots have long been an inspiration. i hope to take a swing at capturing some of these buggers too in a month or so.
glad to hear they don't like white lenses, i can't afford one anyway:lol4

Harryb

pathfinder wrote:

Raptors don't have hearts of gold, Ginger, they are true apex carnivores!

Great shots Harry!! I'm beginning to think the Florida birds are used to snow bird tourists and their cameras. I am not able to get anywhere near 10 yards to large birds locally.

Hey PF,

Thanks. All of the out-of -staters I have shot with are amazed by how close you cna get to the birds down here. Couple of weeks ago I met a shooter from Ireland as we were shooting an eagle and he was telling me that he could never get that close to an eagle in Europe.

wxwax

bfjr wrote:

Pristine Harry

If ya got a minute can you tell me what I'm doing wrong (besides prententing to a photographer ), but why won't they look at me:



:lol4

There's a pond nearby where a family of three ducks hangs out. I can't get closer than 50 yards. :bluduh

Also, that image looks underexposed. It kinda looks like your camera saw all the bright reflections and white ducks, and turned them all to a middle gray (kinda like shooting snow.) You can dial in Exposure Compensation on your camera - you might try +2/3 next time you try a shot like this, see if it looks better exposed.

Shakey

Harry all those shots seem to have a problem ... They are like great ribs the only problem is getting full and not being able to eat any more.

I think a reshoot is in order.:D


Tim

bfjr

wxwax wrote:

There's a pond nearby where a family of three ducks hangs out. I can't get closer than 50 yards. :bluduh

Also, that image looks underexposed. It kinda looks like your camera saw all the bright reflections and white ducks, and turned them all to a middle gray (kinda like shooting snow.) You can dial in Exposure Compensation on your camera - you might try +2/3 next time you try a shot like this, see if it looks better exposed.

Don't want to Hijack Harry's thread, but check out this thread. Tell me if I did better:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=8111

Would not normally post an image like that, but figured it went with my reply

wxwax

bfjr wrote:

Don't want to Hijack Harry's thread, but check out this thread. Tell me if I did better:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=8111

Would not normally post an image like that, but figured it went with my reply

Harry makes a good point in his post - shooting white birds in the sunlight is an invitation for blown-out whites. That's what you have in the first shot. In the second one, the bird's a wee bit dark but you saved all the highlights - unfortunately, the rest of the shot is dark. Tough problem shooting in the middle of the day. Maybe too tough.

Sorry for the hijack, Harry!

Harryb

Kirwin wrote:

Wonderful series, Harry. Nice to see an Osprey that's perched on a tree instead of a man made "dish network" perch. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Kerwin. I love that tree. Its a favorite perch for the local raptors. I've gotten shots of Bald Eagles, Crested Caracaras and Ospreys just by checking out that same tree whenever I'm in the wetlands.

Harryb

sash wrote:

excellent set, harry - your bird shots have long been an inspiration. i hope to take a swing at capturing some of these buggers too in a month or so.
glad to hear they don't like white lenses, i can't afford one anyway:lol4

Hey Sash,

Thanks very much for the kind words. I'm looking forward to see how you make out with those buggers. Where are you going to be shooting?

Harryb

Shakey wrote:

Harry all those shots seem to have a problem ... They are like great ribs the only problem is getting full and not being able to eat any more.

I think a reshoot is in order.:D


Tim

Hey Tim,

You said the magic word. Andy should be by shortly.

I've sent an e-mail to the osprey in an attempt to schedule that rehoot you requested.

Harryb

wxwax wrote:

Harry makes a good point in his post - shooting white birds in the sunlight is an invitation for blown-out whites. That's what you have in the first shot. In the second one, the bird's a wee bit dark but you saved all the highlights - unfortunately, the rest of the shot is dark. Tough problem shooting in the middle of the day. Maybe too tough.

Sorry for the hijack, Harry!

Hey Sid,

I love these types of hijacks. They are discussing one of the real issues that we have to deal with. In my osprey shots I ahd a bird with white feathers and very dark feathers. I opted to expose for the white feathers (I blew them out just a tad in spots). In my post I had to use Capture's D-Lighting (its version of PS's Shadows and Highlights tool) to bring out the details in the darker feathers.

Like the point Dixie makes in the ducks thread you can't recover the details from the areas that are blown out you can use PS to recover details in the shadows (of course you will have to deal with the accompanying noise).

wxwax

Harryb wrote:

Hey Sid,

I love these types of hijacks. They are discussing one of the real issues that we have to deal with. In my osprey shots I ahd a bird with white feathers and very dark feathers. I opted to expose for the white feathers (I blew them out just a tad in spots). In my post I had to use Capture's D-Lighting (its version of PS's Shadows and Highlights tool) to bring out the details in the darker feathers.

Like the point Dixie makes in the ducks thread you can't recover the details from the areas that are blown out you can use PS to recover details in the shadows (of course you will have to deal with the accompanying noise).

I hesitated to suggest PS work 'cause I'm guessing that ol' bfjr doesn't have it. But I agree completely, expose for the highlights then fix the dark parts in post. I had the devil of a time exposing properly for highlights when I chased my little duckies around their pond a few times.

Harryb

ginger_55 wrote:

Harry, you are getting the same reach I am. Since my birds want to hang out in the middle of a marsh, maybe I should get a 2Xs extender.

g

Hey Ginger,

The 2X TC will give you the cheapest access to 600mm but it will slow down your 4.0 lens to either a 7.1 or 8.0 lens. You will lose some sharpness and you would definitely need a tripod to shoot with it.

pathfinder

Harryb wrote:

Hey Ginger,

The 2X TC will give you the cheapest access to 600mm but it will slow down your 4.0 lens to either a 7.1 or 8.0 lens. You will lose some sharpness and you would definitely need a tripod to shoot with it.

And I believe a 20D won't autofocus at f8 or smaller - even the more sensitive center AF point. And manual focus at f8 without a split image rnage finder is a real treat and a half.

That's why it is so important to have teles that are at least f5.6 - and that is slos for early morning or late evenind as you are aware Harry.

Steve Cavigliano

Good stuff Harry ^5
You know you could have stretched the truth a bit and told us that was a fish in his beak and most of us would have never known the difference.....lol

Really nice in flight shots and I love those yellow eyes in the last pic


Good work as usual


You're gonna have to find a part-time job. You have entirely too much free time on your hands :lol How are us working folks supposed to keep up with you?


Thanks for sharing,
Steve

Harryb

pathfinder wrote:

And I believe a 20D won't autofocus at f8 or smaller - even the more sensitive center AF point. And manual focus at f8 without a split image rnage finder is a real treat and a half.

That's why it is so important to have teles that are at least f5.6 - and that is slos for early morning or late evenind as you are aware Harry.

Yes PF I am too aware of that. That's why this lens is on top of my impossible dream list http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=234173&is=USA

Harryb

Steve

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

You know you could have stretched the truth a bit and told us that was a fish in his beak and most of us would have never known the difference.....lol

Really nice in flight shots and I love those yellow eyes in the last pic
Good work as usual

You're gonna have to find a part-time job. You have entirely too much free time on your hands :lol How are us working folks supposed to keep up with you?

Thanks for sharing,
Steve

Hey Steve,

I would never lie about any of my pics, you should know that. :bs

Thanks for the kind words but as for that part-time job stuff..... All I have to say is that after some 40 odd years in the work force my considered opinion of the concept of work is that .......
WORK SUCKS

Lets not raise the concept again.